For What It's Worth

Plastic Nails

They'll fit in your straight-magazine
finish gun. They'll never rust. They
weigh less than the nails you use now.
Sound too good to be true? Not if you
can get used to the idea of plastic
nails. The surface of Raptor Nails,
which are made of a glass/plastic composite
material, actually heats up
enough from the friction of being driven
to fuse to the fibers of the wood.
Contractor Carl Hagstrom has
blown through several cases of these
nails in the past few months, so I
asked him what he thought of them:
"They're great. They don't have much
shear strength, but they're almost
impossible to pull out. They drive just
like metal nails, though I think